Abstract
With this study we aim to know the practices of integral health care performed in the Family Health Unities (FHU) of a health region in Vitória – ES, Brazil, that are offered to people with mental disorders, and to point the difficulties and possibilities faced by health professionals at the development of these practices in Basic Care. We organized six focus group sessions, one session in each one of the six researched Health Unities (HU); after identifying the HU that performed integral health care (according to respondents), we used systematic observation and semi-structured interviews with the professionals responsible for these practices to analyze the actions. We concluded that there are still important difficulties to be faced in the sense of making effective the integration of people with mental disorder in HU spaces of integral health care. However, there were also positive results related to giving access to these participants to health care and to qualified hearing, contributing to their autonomy and social integration
Mental Health; Family Health Strategy; Comprehensive Health Care